HTML 4.01 strict / transitional vs. XHTML 1.0

[Niki Kovacs]

Hi,

I'm actually discovering the wonderful world of w3c validation. Guess I'll
spend a few days learning the ins and outs of its, and then try to rewrite
my four PHP sites that are online.

Question: I wonder what doctype / standard to choose. Goal: sites must
display correctly on any browser. Yeah OK, I know this is my work to test
it everywhere (mind you, when I go online, more often than not I use Lynx
on my Linux Slackware box).

Everyone seems to have a good opinion of every standard. I don't want to
start a flame war here. Just choose one good language / standard... and
then stick to it.

Thanks for your advice,

Niki Kovacs
--
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[David Dorward]

Niki Kovacs wrote:

Question: I wonder what doctype / standard to choose.
XHTML is loaded down with (mostly) subtle issues, but provides few benefits
to the vast majority. Stick with HTML. 4.01 is the latest and (really)
greatest but is also old enough to have a mature level of support among
user agents.

Transitional contains everything Strict does plus a pile of stuff that you
almost certainly shouldn't be using with with current levels of support for
CSS and JavaScript. The possible exception being the "start" attribute for
ordered lists.

So - HTML 4.01 Strict.
Goal: sites must display correctly on any browser.

Loaded question. What is "correctly"?

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[Andy Dingley]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:10:24 +0200, Niki Kovacs <mi****@mouse.com>
wrote:

Question: I wonder what doctype / standard to choose.

4.01 Strict because it minimises the IE variablility.

[Niki Kovacs]

David Dorward wrote:

XHTML is loaded down with (mostly) subtle issues, but provides few
benefits to the vast majority. Stick with HTML. 4.01 is the latest and
(really) greatest but is also old enough to have a mature level of support
among user agents.

Transitional contains everything Strict does plus a pile of stuff that you
almost certainly shouldn't be using with with current levels of support
for CSS and JavaScript. The possible exception being the "start" attribute
for ordered lists.

So - HTML 4.01 Strict.

Thanks for the explanation!

Niki Kovacs
--
I'm not as think as you stoned I am.